The progress of the Northern Expedition army is very smooth, as the commander of Mu Tianbo has not led the troops, the main military operation is still commanded by the deputy marshal Li Dingguo, on the third day of the emperor's return to the sea capital, the Northern Expeditionary Army has broken into the border of Yunnan Menghai, five days later, the army as if inserted wings as quickly arrived at the city of Kunming. When they entered the Yunnan border, the Northern Expeditionary Army was only 30,000 people, but when they arrived in Kunming, they had already entrenched 60,000 people.

The southern part of Yunnan is dominated by Dai people, Zhuang people, Miao people, Li people, Hani people, they each rely on cottages, tribes in the form of settlements distributed in southern Yunnan, these tribes in the late Ming Dynasty served the levy tax is not heavy, occasionally can take out excess specialties and merchants to exchange salt, cloth and other things. But after the Qing people entered Guizhou and Wu Sangui ruled Yunnan, the whole 30,000 or 40,000 Wu troops were Liaodong people, and these people came to settle their families and buy real estate, so under the leadership of Wu Sangui, 30,000 or 40,000 Wu troops began to occupy the land of the Han people in Yunnan, and extorted native products from the Shaomin cottages in southern Xinjiang, and tossed for more than ten years. Many of the young people of the cottage simply fled to northern Myanmar to join Li Dingguo, which is also the reason why there are most of the young people in the Dingbei army.

Now Mu Tianbo is in command, Li Dingguo is the deputy, the front foot of the army has just stepped into Yunnan, Li Dingguo let many natives in the Dingbei army go to the villages to contact, a few days of effort, the young and strong people of the villages have gathered under the banner of the Northern Expeditionary Army. //

Wu Sangui's dog thief is dead, Grandpa Mu is here, and Li Dashuai is also here! This news spread quickly to all ethnic groups and villages in Yunnan like wings, and the young people who had been oppressed for several years suddenly went crazy, and the time came for a counterattack, and the elders of the various cottages and the envoys of the Dingbei Army gathered all the clansmen and announced to them the announcement of the commons of Qianguo. The men didn't say a word, but went back to the stilted building to copy the guys, and the women hurried to the stove to prepare the rice balls and dry food for the men along the way, an hour later. In front of the cottage, all the men who could still carry big swords and spears had gathered, and under the gaze of women and children, they resolutely followed the envoy of the Dingbei Army.

Go down to Kunming City and avenge the brothers who were brutally killed by Qing dogs in the cottage. To regain everything we were robbed of, the Duke of Qianguo came, Li Dashuai also came, the Ming army came, and the Ming Emperor raised the Northern Expedition to seek justice for the brothers in the cottage. Kill the dog!

The city along the road suddenly became nervous, and the Qing officers and soldiers who originally wanted to defend it immediately understood that all resistance was in vain after learning that the king of Pingxi was dead, the Ming army's northern expedition, and the cottages in the countryside responded one after another. ///

So a strange phenomenon appeared. The Northern Expeditionary Army continued to march north. Thousands of cottagers in Yunnan also began to advance towards Kunming from different directions, and all the Qing soldiers and officials along the way also continued to flee to Kunming. Finally, in late July of the new year. The Northern Expeditionary Army arrived under the city of Kunming, among other things. There were also nearly 30,000 Han and native young people to assist in the siege, and the Qing army in the city had 30,000 people, and they planned to rely on the strong city defense of Kunming City to wait for reinforcements.

Within two days, the Ming army did not launch any attack, they were only assigned to hold the siege in the four cities, which made the Qing soldiers in the city breathe a sigh of relief.

Two days later, hundreds of artillery pieces were transported to the army, Yunnan did not gallop roads, most of them were mountain streams and dirt roads, in order to pull these artillery, I don't know how many Ming soldiers were tired to death, and now, the real siege battle officially started under the city of Kunming. /

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As if venting the grievances of the two days, the artillery of the Ming army rose from the moment the thick fog of the morning dawn rose, and lasted until noon, the city wall of the entire Kunming city was blown down in several places, although the Qing soldiers were experienced in a hundred battles, but they had never seen such a strange way of attacking the city, in the countless artillery sounds, tens of thousands of artillery fire poured into the city, the Qing soldiers were blown up, and they could only watch the city wall collapse, withdraw to the city to hold on, so that the Qing army was puzzled that at the moment when the city wall collapsed, What puzzled the Qing soldiers was that the Ming army did not launch a siege.

In the afternoon, the cannon rumbled again, the smoke of the artillery rose up over the entire Kunming city, many unlucky guys were blown up into the sky by the artillery, and some people were even pierced by the iron nails mixed with the artillery, and the blood flowed, and a terrifying atmosphere was coiled in the entire Kunming city.

The morale of the Qing army fell to the lowest point, and the people in the city also took action, they plotted against the Qing soldiers, or created panic, and even secretly attacked the lone Qing soldiers in the streets and alleys, and Zhao Fu, the governor of Guizhou who withdrew to Sichuan, was also in Kunming City, overseeing the defense of Kunming City.

Zhao Fu listened to the report of Nancheng with a calm face in Pingxi Wangfu, the city walls and towers of Nancheng have completely collapsed, more than 1,000 Qing soldiers were killed and injured, and the remaining Qing soldiers could only hide in the streets of Nancheng, but they did not dare to take a step closer to the city tower, and dozens of incidents of rebellious party attacks on Qing soldiers occurred in Nancheng, and now Kunming City has become a big cage, not only is the enemy outside the city, but also the chaotic party hidden in the city is also ready to move, and then go on like this, Kunming City can not wait for the arrival of reinforcements at all.

Zhao Fu held his chin, in Kunming City, there are more than 9,000 cronies and veterans in Liaodong, and most of the rest are recruited recruits, most of them are from Yunnan, will these people rebel? Will anyone defect to the enemy?

Thinking of this, Zhao Fu couldn't help but ooze cold sweat from his back, Yunnan people are by no means reliable, there is no doubt about this, especially at such a critical juncture, these Yunnan soldiers are afraid that they have already cut off his head before the Ming army launches an offensive.

No way! Zhao Fu made a radical move, he should break through to Guizhou, where he was governed, and there were 10,000 old brothers in Liaodong, only with them, Zhao Fu could feel safe, how to get out?

In the evening, after an afternoon of artillery bombardment, the fighting spirit of the Qing soldiers had dropped to the lowest, and the eyes of many people began to wander, and some even hid in the alleys and took off their uniforms and turned into honest people.

When the night dawned, Zhao Fu miraculously found that more than two thousand soldiers were gone, yes, disappeared out of thin air. This incident deeply stabbed Zhao Fu's heart, this group of Yunnan devils, Zhao Fu scolded in his heart, counting on them to resist the Ming army, Lao Tzu would rather drive a group of pigs to the city tower, Zhao Fu's determination to break through Guizhou was even stronger, and an idea came out of his mind.

That night, Zhao Fu summoned the generals to discuss the affairs of the Pingxi Palace, in a dim firelight, Zhao Fu was very frightened, he glanced at each general, among these generals there are thousands of generals, there are generals, there are guerrillas, there are generals, there are generals, there are local officers in Yunnan, and there are also old brothers in Liaodong who followed the king of Pingxi to fight together.

"Brothers, this Kunming city can't be defended, and I'm afraid the reinforcements from the imperial court won't be able to come without a few months." Zhao Fu's first sentence boosted the morale of others and extinguished his own prestige, which made the generals under the hall whisper one after another, not knowing why the Admiral said such frustrating words.

"So Admiral Ben has decided to break out tonight." Zhao Fu immediately said what he thought in his heart.

"Breakout?" Shock was written on many people's faces, who wouldn't want to break through? But the Ming army besieged Kunming City with a big iron cylinder, and now the morale is low, how can it be so easy to break through, maybe they will let themselves die faster.

"Let's go to Sichuan, where there are 20,000 people stationed in Sorotubezi, and 30,000 green battalions to assist in defense. A smile bloomed on Zhao Fu's face, breaking through to Sichuan is a deceitful nonsense, merging with Sorotu Beizi is even more deceitful nonsense, and it is simply a nonsense in a nonsense to fight back, Zhao Fu also has a wonderful plan for the golden cicada to get out of the shell, but it can't be said here.

"My lord, of course it's good to go to Sichuan, but how can we break through?" Questions were raised.

"Now you let the brothers have a good rest, and in the second half of the night, let's take advantage of the lax defense outside the city and then suddenly attack the northern city, Admiral Ben still doesn't believe it, who can stop us?" Zhao Fu said confidently.

Lord Admiral is crazy, the Ming army will be prepared to break through at night, and then they will be killed together, only the Ming army at the north gate will resist for half an hour, and the Ming army in other cities will definitely arrive at the siege, isn't it to die tonight? The generals all had a bad premonition in their hearts, but the coach looked full of confidence, and no one dared to raise objections, maybe it was not necessary to break through tonight, everyone received the military order, and returned to their respective barracks to prepare.

As soon as the generals left, Zhao Fu's face had become terrifying, he smiled coldly, waved his hand over a personal soldier, and said in a low voice: "Go, invite all our generals in Liaodong to come back quietly to talk, remember, don't let people find out, be careful." ”

It is true to break through to Sichuan, and it is also true to break through to Guizhou, how can it be so easy to break through, this Zhao Fu understands this better than anyone else, so let those Yunnan soldiers break through in the direction of Sichuan, then the Ming army at the north gate will send out a warning signal, and the Ming army guarding the other city gates will definitely go to the rescue, at this time there is a vacuum in the defense of the other three gates, and Zhao Fu can take his old brothers in Liaodong to break through to the east gate to Guizhou. This clever plan is called Shengdong attacking the west, but Shengdong's soldiers and horses are real, and these Yunnan soldiers are sent to death, as long as they can save the lives of themselves and the old brothers in Liaodong, what is the death of tens of thousands of people?

"Dead Dao friends don't die channel, Yunnan cubs, whether you can survive or not depends on your luck." Zhao Fu's smiling face looked eerie in the candlelight.